Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 02:00:00 LCL

From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA

Subject: Re: Freeway names



On Fri, 11 Nov 1994, M. Lynne Murphy wrote:



[South African actors] put flaps in "utah".



eh? whazzis "flaps in Utah"



(actually, i should've said "a flap in utah")



flap = what americans do to t's between vowels (why no one here knows

what i'm talking about when i ask for a "glaess uv waddrr")





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